Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.

30 January 2014

gaunän = today (adverb) (some things Google found for "gaunan": an uncommon term; a rare last name; user names; name of a place in North Cotabato province in the Philippines; part of island names in Basilan province in the Philippines)

26 January 2014

ailo = yesterday (adverb) (some things Google found for "ailo": a common term; an unusual Scandinavian masculine first name, notably Ailo Gaup which is the name of a Sámi author and also a Norwegian motocross rider; AILO is an acronym for the Association of International Life Offices; AILO is an acronym for American Indian Liaison Office; an unusual last name; Ailo is a dance band project; Ailo-Atynakovo is the name of a place in Russia; name of a place in Papua New Guinea)

22 January 2014

uski = hand (noun) (some things Google found for "uski": a common term; an unusual last name that can be Finnish; Uski Roti (English title: Our Daily Bread) is a 1969 Hindi drama film; USKI ski equipment designed for children; in Serbo-Croatian uski is forms of uzak meaning narrow; means her in Hindi (transliterated); name of places in Finland and Russia)

My previous Miresua word for hand was uskä. This is a very minor change. I'm trying to lessen the number of nouns ending in a or ä. It'll make the grammar somewhat simplier.

The word hand occurs many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When the Hatter was called as the first witness in court, "he came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other."

18 January 2014

keptu = narrow (adjective) (some things Google found for "keptu": an uncommon term; one of the many races of humanoids in the role-playing fantasy video game The Elder Scrolls; user names; a very rare last name; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; similar keptų means baked or fried in Lithuanian)

14 January 2014

azano = fast (adjective) (some things Google found for "azano": an uncommon term; Azano Pharmaceuticals of New Mexico; Salon Azano of New Jersey; Grupo Azano is a Mexican engineering and construction company; Azano Pty Ltd is an Australian weighing and packaging systems company; an unusual last name; name of a place in the Canary Islands of Spain; name of a place in Togo)

10 January 2014

gedis = slow (adjective) (some things Google found for "gedis": an uncommon term; GEDIS Studio is an online test data generator; a rare last name; a rare first name; Gedis is a Muslim Online Bookshop based in France; GEDIS is an acronym for Geological Exploration and Development Information System in Australia; similar gediş in Azerbaijani means departure; similar Gediz is the the of a place in Turkey)

In English there are a number meanings for the adjective slow. For example, slow can mean taking a long time to move a short distance; or happening gradually; or lacking promptness; or lacking liveliness; or being dull-witted.

The English word slow doesn't translate easily to Basque. There are multiple Basque words meaning slow. In addition to geldi, which means "slow, sluggish; still", other Basque words that can mean slow are motel, mantso, astitsu, patxadatsu and geldo. There are somewhat different meanings to all these words. I can say with some confidence, geldo means slow as in dull-witted.

06 January 2014

banilja = vanilla (noun) (some things Google found for "banilja": a very rare term; bad OCR of texts; similar Banileja is a female person from the city of Baní in the Dominican Republic; similar banilla is a flavor consisting of both banana and vanilla; similar banilya means vanilla in Tagalog; similar Russish Banilya (aka Banyliv) is the name of a place in Ukraine)

About Me

Young enough to daydream, old enough to be somewhat realistic. I'm creating words in a made-up language. I'm not a linguist. Mariska is an old-fashioned Hungarian form of the name Mary. It's pronounced Marishka.

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About Miresua

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).

Finnish language

Finnish (native name: Suomi) is spoken in Finland. It is a minority language in the Northern European countries of Sweden, Norway, Russia, and Estonia. Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic language family (which also includes Hungarian). There are about 6 million total speakers of Finnish.

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Basque language

Basque (native name: Euskara) is spoken by in Basque Country, a region in the western Pyrenees mountains of Spain and France. Basque is a language with no demonstrable relationship with any other living language. There are about 1 million total speakers of Basque.